Harvard Business School Up to 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. But solutions are starting to come together from retailers, farmers, academics, policymakers and social service organizations, according to José Alvarez.
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Progressive Grocer The NPD Group's "A Generational Study: The Evolution of Eating" takes an in-depth look at each generation's innovations, needs and wants when it comes to dinner. The report finds their various eating styles to be as different as the music that each generation listens to and calls their own.
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The Washington Post Donald Trump's escalating effort to undermine the presidential election as "rigged" has alarmed government officials administering the vote as well as Democratic and Republican leaders, who are anxiously preparing for the possibility of unrest or even violence on Election Day and for an extended battle over the integrity of the outcome.
Hillary Clinton's advisers are privately worried that Trump's calls for his supporters to stand watch at polling places in cities such as Philadelphia for any hint of fraud will result in intimidation tactics that might threaten her supporters and suppress the votes of African-Americans and other minorities.READ MORE

NBC NewsShould Democrats use Donald Trump against other Republicans or use other Republicans against Trump?
That question is dividing Democrats this year, as Hillary Clinton's campaign has sought to drive a wedge between Trump as the GOP standard bearer at the same time Democrats in down ballot races have been more interested in chaining the unpopular Trump to their Republican opponents.READ MORE

Agri-Pulse Several leading U.S. farm groups are urging food companies to think twice about their sustainability goals, saying they may actually be causing more harm than good.
The groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, are responding specifically to Dannon's pledge to eliminate genetically modified ingredients from its yogurt products, which they noted was just the latest such promise from prominent food manufacturers and retailers in recent years.READ MORE

Forbes From the rise of fast-casual restaurants to the ease of delivery services, eating prepared food is a convenient proposition in 2016. And it seems that millennials are taking advantage of that, spending more of their food budget on dining out than ever before.
Millennials spend 44 percent of their food dollars — or $2,921 annually — on eating out, according to the Food Institute's analysis of the Agriculture Department's food expenditure data from 2014. READ MORE

TimeIf you are what you tweet, a lot of Americans are very, very jittery. A new study looked at nearly 80 million tweets and found that coffee was the most tweeted-about consumable in the U.S., and Starbucks was by far the most tweeted fast-food restaurant.
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Food Business News Yield enhancement refers to the binding of moisture — natural juices or added water — in meat and poultry to increase the weight of the product, and thus saleable volume. However, as with many technologies, ingredients used for yield enhancement often provide extra benefits.READ MORE